A few weeks ago (the Sunday night after we got back from the beach) the children had their church choir program AND their preschool end of year program ON THE SAME NIGHT, as usual of the last 3 years!!!! We went to the church program first and let Wilson sing there. When they walked into the sanctuary, he saw me, started crying and REFUSED to go on stage with the rest of the choir. SO, I convinced him to go up there if I went with him. He did, and after much probing and dirty looks and threats, he stood tall and sang his little heart out!!!
THEN, my mom and dad and Will and Henderson RUSHED off to the preschool to get the boys in the class ready to sing their songs there. I stayed behind and watched Emma Claire's class sing!!!!
And boy did they sing! They have a WONDERFUL class of musicians and she has a very LOUD cousin (Patton, 2 to the right of Emma Claire). He cracked me up!!!!! He was belting out singing at the top of his lungs, bless his heart.
As soon as they were finished singing, Emma Claire and my sister Katie and Will's parents RUSHED over to the school where we totally MISSED Wilson and Henderson singing. The good news though, without MOMMY in the crowd, BOTH of them sang their little hearts out and didn't miss a beat. I'm the one to blame.
Well, SUMMER time is here and we are living it up! Playing outside, swimming, watching long movies in the cool basement, VBS, you name it we are doing it!!!!
We have unknowingly harvest black grasshoppers. I should have shown them to you a few months ago, the children found one of our daylillies COVERED with thousands of itty bitty black grasshoppers. And they are still there - and growing. They started out less than a centimeter big and by the end of the summer they'll be huge - like 4 inches long HUGE!!!! All 3 children run out to look for them and catch many of them, even Henderson has gotten good at catching them. We always let them go and thankfully none have gotten in our house YET!!!!
Does this picture not just scream SNAKE!!!!!!
There are the little things...
We also have 2 hermit crabs, Willie on the right and Sandy on the left.
Emma Claire got pinched by that huge purple claw on the first day, so she's a little skiddish of them, but Wilson, well, let's just say it's only a matter of time!!!!
Will caught a frog on Saturday and he stayed in the aqaurium for awhile, but later Emma Claire and I looked out the window and saw Wilson holding him by the back of his neck - he just can't help it, he's ALL BOY!!!! He was soon let go, back to his family!!!!
Last week was also filled with OLIVER shows. Emma Claire was a workhouse kid and in the children's ensemble. Chandler and Mallory were pickpockets.
This scary looking man, is my brother-in-law, Stan, who did a fabulous job in his first ever acting job as FAGIN!!!!! Isn't the makeup wonderful???? You can see a better picture of Stan in my beach pictures!!!!
It was a wonderful week, but rehearsals until 11:30 each night last week and still up at 5:00 each morning about did me in!!!!! To say I was exhausted last night was an understatement!!!!
This week is a short week for me, as I'm headed to Mobile for a State Tennis Tournament on Wednesday, then to Orange Beach with Will for a rare trip without kids!!!! Too bad the oil has beat us there, but the time alone will still be nice!!!!
We have unknowingly harvest black grasshoppers. I should have shown them to you a few months ago, the children found one of our daylillies COVERED with thousands of itty bitty black grasshoppers. And they are still there - and growing. They started out less than a centimeter big and by the end of the summer they'll be huge - like 4 inches long HUGE!!!! All 3 children run out to look for them and catch many of them, even Henderson has gotten good at catching them. We always let them go and thankfully none have gotten in our house YET!!!!
Does this picture not just scream SNAKE!!!!!!
There are the little things...
We also have 2 hermit crabs, Willie on the right and Sandy on the left.
Emma Claire got pinched by that huge purple claw on the first day, so she's a little skiddish of them, but Wilson, well, let's just say it's only a matter of time!!!!
Will caught a frog on Saturday and he stayed in the aqaurium for awhile, but later Emma Claire and I looked out the window and saw Wilson holding him by the back of his neck - he just can't help it, he's ALL BOY!!!! He was soon let go, back to his family!!!!
Last week was also filled with OLIVER shows. Emma Claire was a workhouse kid and in the children's ensemble. Chandler and Mallory were pickpockets.
This scary looking man, is my brother-in-law, Stan, who did a fabulous job in his first ever acting job as FAGIN!!!!! Isn't the makeup wonderful???? You can see a better picture of Stan in my beach pictures!!!!
It was a wonderful week, but rehearsals until 11:30 each night last week and still up at 5:00 each morning about did me in!!!!! To say I was exhausted last night was an understatement!!!!
This week is a short week for me, as I'm headed to Mobile for a State Tennis Tournament on Wednesday, then to Orange Beach with Will for a rare trip without kids!!!! Too bad the oil has beat us there, but the time alone will still be nice!!!!
